In past years our weekly, 12-team, mixed, 5x5, H2H fantasy league has for the most part followed the Yahoo! default roster setup. That is, C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util and SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P with 5 bench spots. This year I am considering the addition of a couple more pitchers and a change in specifics along the lines of SP, SP, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, P. My intent is to more closely emulate a starting rotation and place more value on setup men and relievers in general. This would also even out the number of hitters and pitchers on each team at 9.

However, nearly every fantasy league setup seems to have less pitchers than hitters. Does anyone know whether there is a particular reason for this? I can see where a head to head format with these 9 pitchers could allow one to line up even more 2-starters and saves may become overvalued. That being said, since there are no innings or transaction limits in this format, setting up one's roster to take advantage of it seems to be a part of the game. Would this change create too many loopholes to exploit or does it seem reasonable? Thank you.